Truth stranger than fiction: Father Henson's story of his own life: Josiah Henson

Truth stranger than fiction: Father Henson's story of his own life: Josiah Henson

Henson, JosiahJ.P. Jewett and Co, 1858

Bound in publisher's blind stamped
brown cloth. xii, 212 p. Frontispiece portrait. Hardcover. Solid cover.
Spine cocked. Some gatherings starting. Scattered spotting throughout.
Introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Henson was born in Charles County
Maryland. He escaped to Canada and established a school at the Dawn
Settlement in Kent Co, Ontario. Henson's life provided the inspiration
for the titular charactor in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. This is the
expanded version of Henson's memoir, first published in 1849. Henson
worked on a plantation in what is now North Bethesda, Montgomery County,
MD. A fascinating story of ante-bellum Maryland, the underground
railroad, and the path to freedom in Canada. Coleman 3058. Sabin 31433.
(1st edition was titled, "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave,
Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself"). Bookseller